Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 231 328
Rank change year-on-year -132 +97 -33
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 529 684 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.38% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.54% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 259 299 389
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,250 £39,126
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,845 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £76,125 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,845 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -112 480 £62,500 -10.74% 673
London -27 296 £67,500 -14.29% 471
Work from Home +35 240 £62,500 -3.85% 244
UK excluding London -195 185 £61,845 -1.05% 257
North of England -20 64 £63,076 -13.00% 57
North West +15 41 £83,750 +28.85% 32
South East -151 31 £40,000 -36.00% 83
East of England -18 28 £65,000 -9.72% 21
Midlands -41 28 £50,000 -17.36% 44
South West -89 24 £68,528 +14.21% 20
West Midlands -32 22 £52,500 -12.50% 35
Yorkshire -30 20 £60,850 -22.73% 20
Scotland +9 8 £85,000 +4.62% 18
East Midlands -35 6 £37,500 -46.04% 9
Wales -62 3 £65,000 +8.59% 6
North East - 3 £63,076 - 5
Northern Ireland -78 1 - - 11

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.16%) Confluence
2 17 (3.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.89%) CMS
3 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (10.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.57%) Moqups
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.37%) Workfront
2 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Eikon
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.19%) RMDS
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 88 (16.64%) SaaS
2 75 (14.18%) AWS
3 54 (10.21%) Azure
4 53 (10.02%) iPaaS
5 17 (3.21%) GCP
6 16 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.46%) Figma
7 13 (2.46%) GitHub
7 13 (2.46%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.27%) Google Workspace
9 10 (1.89%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.13%) Asana
13 5 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.76%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.76%) Miro
14 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 3 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.72%) Broadband
2 30 (5.67%) HTTP
3 11 (2.08%) WAN
4 8 (1.51%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.32%) Firewall
5 7 (1.32%) LAN
6 5 (0.95%) Network Security
6 5 (0.95%) NGN
7 4 (0.76%) MPLS
7 4 (0.76%) SAN
8 3 (0.57%) Intranet
8 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.57%) WLAN
9 2 (0.38%) DNS
9 2 (0.38%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.38%) Multicast
9 2 (0.38%) Skype
9 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.38%) VoIP
9 2 (0.38%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.02%) Metadata
2 12 (2.27%) Power BI
3 6 (1.13%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.38%) Big Data
6 2 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.38%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.19%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.19%) MySQL
7 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Redis
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (8.32%) JIRA
2 8 (1.51%) Git
3 5 (0.95%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.95%) Selenium
4 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.57%) Postman
5 2 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.19%) TestNG
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 177 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 174 (32.89%) Marketing
3 161 (30.43%) Finance
4 85 (16.07%) Banking
5 69 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (12.85%) Law
7 67 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (12.10%) Retail
9 59 (11.15%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (6.24%) Public Sector
12 26 (4.91%) Legal
13 22 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (3.97%) Back Office
15 16 (3.02%) Italian Language
16 15 (2.84%) Telecoms
17 14 (2.65%) Manufacturing
17 14 (2.65%) Retail Banking
18 11 (2.08%) German Language
19 9 (1.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 164 (31.00%) Product Manager
2 75 (14.18%) Product Owner
3 73 (13.80%) Senior
4 69 (13.04%) Lead
5 41 (7.75%) Senior Manager
5 41 (7.75%) Software Engineer
6 38 (7.18%) Senior Product Manager
7 30 (5.67%) Development Engineer
7 30 (5.67%) Software Development Engineer
8 26 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (3.78%) Consultant
10 19 (3.59%) Developer
11 17 (3.21%) Platform Manager
12 16 (3.02%) Product Lead
13 15 (2.84%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.65%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.65%) Development Consultant
15 13 (2.46%) Technical Engineer
15 13 (2.46%) Technical Manager
15 13 (2.46%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.62%) REST
2 9 (1.70%) React
3 8 (1.51%) Google Maps API
4 7 (1.32%) LangChain
5 6 (1.13%) CSS
5 6 (1.13%) HTML
6 5 (0.95%) PyTorch
6 5 (0.95%) Spring
6 5 (0.95%) TensorFlow
7 4 (0.76%) LangGraph
7 4 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.57%) .NET
8 3 (0.57%) CrewAI
8 3 (0.57%) LlamaIndex
8 3 (0.57%) Pandas
9 2 (0.38%) FHIR
9 2 (0.38%) Plotly
9 2 (0.38%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (32.70%) Product Ownership
2 63 (11.91%) Social Media
3 54 (10.21%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (10.21%) Over-the-Top Content
4 40 (7.56%) Cloud Native
5 34 (6.43%) Public Cloud
6 28 (5.29%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.97%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.46%) Web Conferencing
10 12 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (2.08%) Educational Technology
12 10 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.51%) Augmented Reality
13 8 (1.51%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.51%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.51%) Virtual Reality
14 7 (1.32%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.46%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Windows
3 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.57%) Unix
3 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) CentOS
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (60.87%) Roadmaps
2 232 (43.86%) Agile
3 157 (29.68%) Product Roadmap
4 131 (24.76%) Product Vision
5 127 (24.01%) AI
6 120 (22.68%) Decision-Making
7 116 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (19.47%) User Stories
9 102 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 98 (18.53%) Customer Experience
11 95 (17.96%) Product Backlog
12 83 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (15.69%) Product Requirements
13 80 (15.12%) Software Engineering
14 78 (14.74%) Product Strategy
15 75 (14.18%) Analytics
16 74 (13.99%) Sprint Planning
16 74 (13.99%) User Experience
17 70 (13.23%) Workflow
18 69 (13.04%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.13%) Java
2 29 (5.48%) Python
3 12 (2.27%) SQL
4 11 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.70%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.13%) Bicep
7 5 (0.95%) C++
7 5 (0.95%) R
8 3 (0.57%) Bash
8 3 (0.57%) C#
8 3 (0.57%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.57%) PHP
8 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 99 (18.71%) Degree
2 19 (3.59%) Master's Degree
3 14 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.08%) MBA
6 9 (1.70%) HND
7 8 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.51%) HNC
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.13%) PMP
9 5 (0.95%) CSPO
10 4 (0.76%) CCNA
10 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.76%) PhD
11 3 (0.57%) CISSP
11 3 (0.57%) Dell Certification
11 3 (0.57%) MCSA
12 2 (0.38%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.05%) QA
2 22 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.70%) GDPR
4 6 (1.13%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) PMO
6 4 (0.76%) PERC
6 4 (0.76%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) DICOM
7 2 (0.38%) HL7
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.51%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.76%) Firmware
3 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.02%) Terraform
2 7 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.57%) WSUS
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 58 (10.96%) Adobe
2 51 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.59%) Google
4 18 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.08%) Cisco
6 10 (1.89%) Facebook
6 10 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.89%) Oracle
7 6 (1.13%) Juniper
8 5 (0.95%) Fortinet
8 5 (0.95%) Workday
9 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.76%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.57%) Dell
10 3 (0.57%) Fujitsu
10 3 (0.57%) HP
10 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.57%) Reuters
10 3 (0.57%) VMware